Jenna Dewan Quotes

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

I'm an actor. I'm a singer. And I dance. To be able to do all these things is amazing. And to have similar-minded people all around you, doing what you love, is even more amazing.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

The Peapod Foundation provides tools and mentors encouraging children to express themselves through music and art.

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

There's a whole network of people, particularly in New York, obviously, that came up through the Spike Lee School. I'm one of them. That's big!

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

Every day, I have new ideas. It makes my brain tired, so I spend time taking care of company quality, finding new artists, and taking care of the young artists.